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Christie, Nils – MIT Press, 2020
A classic in the philosophy of education, considering the fundamental purpose and function of schools, translated into English for the first time. The open access edition of this book was made possible by generous funding from Arcadia--a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. This classic 1971 work on the fundamental purpose and…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Sociology, School Role, Social Environment
Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2006
Children's outcomes are strongly correlated with those of their neighbours. The extent to which this is causal is the subject of an extensive literature. An identification problem exists because people with similar characteristics are observed to live in close proximity. Another major difficulty is that neighbourhoods measured in available data…
Descriptors: Proximity, Foreign Countries, Neighborhoods, Outcomes of Education